A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Balkanabat in Tur kmenistan. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 28.45 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/10/16 / 2016-10-26 14:15:40 / October 26, 2016 @ 2:15 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 54.4919° East, 39.5048° North, depth 28.45 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us20007guj. Unique identifier: us20007guj. The temblor was picked up at 19:15:40 / 7:15 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gazanjyk, Gumdag, Balkanabat (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Turkmenistan (c. 4 941 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 11 km (7 miles) from Balkanabat (c. 87 800 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Gumdag (c. 24 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Gazanjyk (c. 21 100 pop).
Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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